Rhode Island · Nonprofit
SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL
SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL (Rhode Island) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,678 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($32,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $87k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Southside Elementary Charter School does
Mission
The mission of Southside Elementary Charter School is to provide a diverse group of providence kindergarten through fifth grade students with a solid step towards college and community leadership. Students will learn to read, write, think logically and problem solve on grade level within a curriculum that emphasizes academic rigor, excellence, and community engagement in an extended school day and year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide a diverse group of providence kindergarten through fifth grade students with a solid step towards college and community leadership.
$2,306,666 spent$3,041,622 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,306,666.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $483k to $954k (+98%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 10% · 2018 12% · 2019 9% · 2020 14% · 2021 14% · 2022 23% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Madeline Burke
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $36.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
66% of SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $30k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL (Rhode Island) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,678 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($32,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $86,678 in grants to SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $32,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing